Researches Relevant to Theosophy
Space Sciences
Date : Oct., 2025
Source : Science Alert
For the first time, astronomers have seen (in ice-form) life’s basic building blocks (according to modern science) beyond the borders of our galaxy.
These basic components (Complex organic Molecules) are molecules with at least six atoms, at least one is carbon. They are precursors to the molecules that build life.
One important conclusion is that these precursors were forged before Earth was even born.
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Space Sciences
Date : Oct., 2025
Source : Science Alert
The search for extraterrestrial life was boosted after the discovery of exoplanets orbiting red dwarf stars. As of June 4, 2026, there are 6,298 confirmed exoplanets in 4,709 planetary systems.
Assuming there are 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, it can be hypothesized that there are 11 billion potentially habitable Earth-sized planets, rising to 40 billion if planets orbiting the red dwarfs are included.
A new research suggests advanced civilizations are unlikely on red dwarf systems.
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Space Sciences
Date : Sept., 2024
Source : Phys Org
What we call matter in the visible universe is not where we would think it is.
Apart from Dark Matter which is not visible but detectable due to its impact on celestial orbits dynamics, most of the visible matter is not in the bright stars. Instead, it is located in gigantic clouds of gaz surrounding most of the galaxies. They account for 70%-90% for the visible matter. This is the cradle of stars and planets, the “raw” material from which they are created, shaped by gravitational accretion. These halos are stretching hundreds of thousands of light years. A scientific team was able to take a picture of it. It is glowing, but we don’t know why. And an interesting fact was noticed : the galaxy does not smoothly “fade out” into the surrounding halo. There is an abrupt break from one to the other.
H.P. Blavatsky Collected Writings – Vol. V, p. 150, has an answer to the question : “Do the Adepts deny the Nebular Theory?”, and Vol. XIV, p. 87 says : “The nebular theory of Modern Science, with all its mysteries, is solved in the cosmogony of the Archaic Doctrine, and the paradoxical though very scientific enunciation, that ‘cooling causes contraction and contraction causes heat; therefore cooling causes heat,’ is shown as the chief agency in the formation of the worlds, ans especially of our sun and solar system.”
H.P. Blavatsky Secret Doctrine – B. de Zirkoff Edition, Vol. I, p. 588, gives some clues about the nebular theory : “The nebulae exists; yet the nebular theory is wrong. A nebula exists in a state of entire elemental dissociation. It is gaseous and – something else besides, which can hardly be connected with gazes, as known to physical science; and it is self-luminous.”
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Physics, Space Sciences
Date : June, 2024
Source : Science Alert
The Neutrino is the most elusive and weird particle from the Standard Model. It is everywhere in the universe. It moves at light speed, it does not interact with ordinary matter, so it can go through any physical substance, including our physical body, without being detected – the invisible entity. It was postulated in 1930 by Wolfgang Pauli before being discovered in the 1950’s. Its main source are the stars like our Sun, which generate billions of them every second through the fusion process.
It is still as of today one of the biggest mystery in modern Particle Physics, it has a mass but still unknown where the Standard Model predicted no mass for the neutrino. A new study suggests that the lightest particles in the Universe may play a critical role in the formation of heavy elements.
Nucleosynthesis – the generation of elements, or the transformation of the Big Bang elementary particles (H, He, Li) is mainly the result of the fusion process inside the core of the main sequence stars like our Sun. But it stops short at the iron element (Fe). Above this threshold, it requires the immense energy only a supernova star can provide. This study brings a new genesis process for the heavy elements, using the quantum identity of the neutrinos (entanglement) as an intermediate process. Another brick in the puzzle of the generation of physical matter.
At the time where the early teachings of Theosophy were published, the sun’s fusion process was unknown, like most of modern Physics. An article from the Collected Writings of H.P.B. – Is the Sun a Cooling Mass (Vol. V, p. 155), quoting Sir John Hershel giving out a theory approximating an occult truth : “These wonderful objects are not ‘solar inhabitants’, but simply the reservoirs of solar vital energy, the vital electricity that feeds the whole system in which it lives, and breathes, and has its being.”
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Cosmology, Biology
Date : April, 2021
Source : Science Alert
Analysing carbon-rich meteorites found in Australia (1969), Kentuky (1950) and British Columbia (2000), a team of researchers have identified nucleobases like purines and pyrimidines which were not detected previously in meteorites. These nucleobases participates to the building of the structural backbone of DNA and RNA. Such organics are considered to have play an important rôle in the chemical evolution of the Earth’s primordial stage (4 billion years ago). This is another sign of the Panspermia theory early last century.
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Cosmology
Date : January 20, 2022
Source : Quanta Magazine
Any single galaxy reveals the composition of an entire universe.
When simulating possible universes, researchers have discovered that a whole universe can be infer from the analysis of the amount of matter in just one of its galaxies.
This, if confirmed, would be a nice example of the “Hermetic Axiom” mentioned by H.P.B. – “As is the inner, so is the outer; as is the great, so is the small…“
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and the Scientific Paper published on ArXiv
Space Sciences
Date : Sept. , 2023
Source : Science Alert
As closed as 150 light-years away, in the constellation of Taurus, a team of astronomers has found that there could be two or three stellar mass black holes hiding therein.
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Space Sciences
Date : Jul., 2021
Source : ScienceAlert
The Cassini-Huygens probe, circling Enceladus, one of Saturn’s moons, made an unexpected discovery by spotting big amount of methane in the plumes belching from the interior of Enceladus. Because no known process can be pumping out the amount of methane observed spewing, scientists concluded that either it is an unknown geochemical process or . . . it could be biological in origin.
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Space Sciences, Biology
Date : Mar., 2021
Source : PHYS.ORG
Scientists are still trying to understand what LIFE is and how it started on Earth.
NASA is currently developing active programs to search for life on the Solar System planets and on exo-planets.
Life is defined by the NASA as :
« A SELF-SUSTAINING CHEMICAL SYSTEM CAPABLE OF DARWINIAN EVOLUTION »
The way scientists are looking at the beginning of life on Earth :
« FOUR BILLION YEARS AGO, SOMETHING HAPPENED… AND LIFE STARTED… A PROCESS OF RANDOM VARIATION IN THE STRUCTURE OF INHERITED BIOMOLECULES, ON WHICH WAS SUPERIMPOSED NATURAL SELECTION TO ACHIEVE FITNESS.
Mme Blavatsky said (Secret Doctrine, vol. I, p. 539 – 1888 edition) :
« The Principle of Life on the manifested (or our) plane is but the effect and the result of the intelligent action of the « Host » – collectively, Principle – the manifesting LIFE and LIGHT. It is itself subordinate to, and emanates from the ever-invisible, eternal and Absolute ONE LIFE in a descending and a re-ascending scale of hierarchic degrees – a true septenary ladder…”and religion.
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Physics, Space Sciences
Date : Nov. 2020
Source : AAAS
The fusion processes which occurs inside the core of any active star like our sun is the source of the generation of energy for all celestial bodies in its vicinity. This process involves the transformation of one element, starting with hydrogen, into heavier elements like helium, bore, carbon, oxygen,… The mechanism involves classical electromagnetism and quantum physics and it is confirmed by measurements from the Earth of the emitted particules called neutrinos. A recent experiment was able to measure for the first time such neutrinos coming from the sun’s second fusion process, called the CNO (Carbon, Nitrogen, Oxygen) Cycle.
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Physics, Space Sciences
Date : Nov. 2020
Source : AAAS
In 2014, Chandra Wickramasinghe, from Buckingham Center for Astrobiology, UK, wrote a book – The Search for Our Cosmic Ancestry, following Fred Hoyle’s Theory of Cosmic Panspermia. He statistically demonstrated that life cannot have emerged on earth per chance, as the mainstream materialistic scientist’s world think, but was probably brought by cosmic “travelers” like comets, asteroids,…
In a recent space project – COSIMA (COmetary Secondary Ion Mass Analyser), hosted on the Rosetta spacecraft – discovered phosphorus and fluorine in solid dust particles collected from the inner coma of comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko. Carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen and sulphur were already reported in previous studies. Phosphorus is the last one of the CHNOPS-elements necessary for life to emerge.
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Physics, Space Sciences
Date : Nov. 2020
Source : Science Magazine
Since the discovery of the anomalies of galaxies’ outer stars rotations (Fritz Zwicky, 1933’s), scientists have not been able to develop a satisfactory theory to explain the observed phenomenon. The concept of Dark Matter was introduced to account for the departure from general relativity model. Later, Dark Matter was used as a necessary component to validate the Big Bang theory, i.e. without Dark Matter, it is not possible for the initial sidereal bodies to form.
Dark Matter must pervade every galaxy. Yet, after decades of modeling and observations, not a single particle of Dark Matter has been spotted.
A new hypothesis surfaced, based on the observations of the distribution of galaxies from the CMB (Cosmic Microwave Background), which includes a gravity model which would be attractive at some length scale and repulsive at others.
Mme Blavatsky wrote (Isis Unveiled I. p.271, Ed. 1877) : “That there is no gravitation in the Newtonian sense, but only magnetic attraction and repulsion; that it is by their magnetism that the planets of the solar system have their motions regulated in their respective orbits by the still more powerful magnetism of the sun, not by their weight or gravitation.”
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Biology, Space Science
Date : Oct. 2020
Source : Frontiers in Physics
The network of neuronal cells in the human brain is seen as a complex multi-scale structure which can be modeled as a hierarchical network forming the physical and biological basis of cognition. The Universe, as far as we can observe and model it, looks like a web, the cosmic web. A new study analyzed the similarities between the two systems, and an astonishing conclusion emerged, showing that the order of magnitude of the quantity of information existing in the human mind neural network is identical to the quantity of information in the entire observable universe ( 1016).
The Secret Doctrine (Vol. I, p. 592 – 3rd Edition) states that : “Occult Philosophy has taught since the existence of human speech and language, on the principle of the immutable law of analogy, “as it is above, so it is below”, another of its axioms, that there is neither Spirit nor Matter, in reality, but only numberless aspects of the One ever-hidden Is, or Sat.”
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Space Sciences
Date : August, 2020
Source : Quantamagazine
Inflation versus cyclic universe debate is rising again among cosmologists. New computer simulations seems to challenge the Big Bang theory in favor of a cyclic universe, i.e. a universe which has no beginning, no end, and mainly no “singularity”, one of the weakest point of current theory where all known physical laws are supposed to collapse. But there is still a long road between simulation models and the physical world as we see it today.
Mme Blavatsky wrote (Secret Doctrine, Vol. I, p.594) : ” It is easy for an astronomer, if endowed with an imaginative faculty, to build a theory of the emergence of the universe out of chaos, by simply applying to it the principles of mechanics. But such a universe will always prove, with respect to its scientific human creators, a Frankenstein’s monster; it will lead him into endless perplexities. The application of the mechanical laws only can never carry the speculator beyond the objective world; nor will it unveil to men the origin and final destiny of Kosmos.”
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Physics, Space Sciences
Source : Quanta Magazine
Date : July 2020
Magnetic fields are present in our Universe, wherever we look at, on the Earth, the Sun, the Milky Way, clusters of galaxies, . . . and even in the interstellar void, connecting clusters of galaxies via gigantic filaments. The origin of these force fields is still unknown. One possibility could be that it was created at the (re)birth of our Universe. Therefore, it would be considered as primordial. Such an hypothesis could explain the current accelerated expansion of the visible Universe. Magnetism, together with gravity are the forces shaping out the large-structure of the cosmos.
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